After the Lie

After the Lie - Tony Banks

For a while I could not seem to lose this childhood spectre

I felt others saw it too

Now I notice a change in

The way that people look at me

And how those people look to me

I see they're not so clever

I like them better for it too

And one still more

For now I see more clearly

Many things that passed me by

Like paul the visionary

I see things in a different light

For now I know what course to take

Now at last I find a meaning

In scenes of life

That made no sense to me before

And the complicated structures

Of scientific knowledge

Once just mad

They seem so simple now

And one I've known since childhood

She has new meaning for me too

These things are good

For now I see more clearly

Many things that passed me by

Like paul the visionary

I see things in a different light